Suits, yes. You never wore suits in the office. I mean,
you took the jacket off and the tie off in the office.

Q:

Was there discussion in the 30s--it's hard to pin-point this
down, because it's my understanding that through the years there were
ongoing discussions about the mandate of LIFE, what was LIFE about,
the self-definition, the raison d'etre, whatever you want to call it.
In those early years, what was LIFE's definition?

Q:

You see, when you're just running a department, you don't think
about LIFE as a whole. You only think about what you're doing. You
don't have great thoughts about “what is it?” or so on. Later on, I
spent 30 years trying to define LIFE and never could. Nor was
anybody else ever able to. Nor was any advertising agency ever able
to. And in a sense, that may have been why it was always a problem,
even when it was very successful, because there was no way of stating
specifically what it was and what it should do. Anytime you tried
to, it would overflow whatever boundaries you set to it. It didn't
conform to anything. Because it was really being created all the
time. It was a completely original notion. Forty years later, I had